Reader Discussion: What Are Your Favorite In-Game Holiday Moments?

As you bundle up and get ready to settle in for an egg nog-filled holiday, we’d like you to take a moment and think about how your favorite holidays are represented in video games. Whether we’re talking about Christmas, Halloween, or a more secular “Winter Festival,” holidays play an important role in a number of titles.

Some representations are lighthearted like the Halloween of Costume Quest and the Christmas of Rockstar’s Bully (complete with ugly sweater). Other representations, like Elite Beat Agent’s heartbreaking Christmas story, are bit more emotional. Then there’s Calendar Man in Batman: Arkham City who has something to say about a variety of holidays.

Let us know what holiday video game moments are your favorites. Is there any themed DLC that you return to each year?

I loved the Holiday events in WoW. After opening the presents under the tree I'd log onto all my characters and take them to Ironforge to see what Greatfather Winter left for them.

I also liked the holiday themes from Gears of War 3. Whether it be having a cool candy cane skin on my gun, having a pumpkin on my head, or shooting turkeys out of a boomshot there was a lot of fun to be had.

Does anyone remember how the gamecube version of
''Simpsons: Road Rage'' gave Special Cars for every Holyday? Its among the best ones
and when Alfred says: Happy Holyday Mr.Wayne in Arkham Origins was cool too.
Bully is up there too! With that mission about hitting Santa and the dwarfs

Definately the fight with Santa on Secret of Mana. The whole moment was epic and unexpected for that era of games and being made in Japan. Hell, even Rudolph makes an appearance, and how often do you fight Santa as a boss???